Congratulations to Dr. Anna Nogar, OurStoryBridge, and Vermont Folklife, who are among the 219 awardees of the latest funding cycle of NEH grants.
News from the Field
Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photographic contest where the photographers can contribute media about their local folk culture to Wikimedia Commons under free licenses to be used on Wikipedia and any other places with attribution. The contest runs from February 1 through March 31, 2025. A separate Feminism and Folklore Writing Competition is held at the same time.
US RAOs recently released their new funding program, Walking Together, which offers grants from $15,000 - $50,000. Webinars and office hours are available for additional information. The initial self-nomination deadline is Wednesday, March 19.
The KGOU podcast How Curious, which is hosted and produced by folklorist Rachel Hopkin, wins the 2025 Bruce T. Fisher Award from the Oklahoma Historical Society “in recognition of its outstanding work contributing to the broader public knowledge of Oklahoma history.”
On December 18, 2024, City Lore co-director Steve Zeitlin and archivist Seth Schonberg drove to Washington, DC to deliver over 40 years of the organization's archival audio and visual materials to be shared with the Library of Congress.
Through March, you can freely access Traci Cox’s essay in JAF’s Special Issue on Folklore Studies and Disability that received the "Best Article of the Year" Award from the Brothers Grimm Society of North America.
NASAA, in collaboration with NEA, released Cross-Sector Strategies for Health and Community Well-Being, which documents the strategies of seven state arts agencies with innovative programs connecting the arts sector and health care sector.
Dr. Maribel Alvarez converses with Folk music educator and performer Eugene Rodriguez, who founded Los Cenzontles, a youth music group, in 1989 in San Pablo, California, about the joys and challenges of folklore-based education and identity politics.
Listen to The UPside, a podcast conversation between editors Lisa Gilman and Anand Prahlad about the special issue of the Journal of American Folklore on folklore and disability.
The National Humanities Alliance is pleased to launch their new report, Attracting Students to the Liberal Arts Through Integrative Curricula. The report illustrates how undergraduate courses and programs that integrate the humanities, social sciences, and/or natural sciences with applied approaches and pre-professional training help to demonstrate the value of a broad-based education to skeptical students.